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Successful information systems (IS) auditing requires many components and controls, beginning with the nature of a business, its driving processes, and underlying IT solutions. In this course, you will discover auditing, data analysis, and control, beginning with audit findings remediation follow-up, sampling methods, and audit evidence gathering. Then you will explore data analytics and systems auditing, the role of the data analyst, and auditing quality assurance. Next, you will focus on organizational documentation and stakeholder needs. Finally, you will learn about network diagrams, types of security controls, and control objectives and controls. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Project governance, management, system development, and testing play key roles in information systems. In this course, you will begin by exploring project governance and management, project governance best practices, business cases, and feasibility studies. Then, you will dig into system development methodologies and control identification and design. Finally, you will learn about testing methodologies, beginning with an overview of software testing, unit testing, regression testing, acceptance testing, integration testing, performance testing, and fuzzing. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Regardless of the guidance that one is following as a security professional, one common theme is that architects must be held to a high ethical standard based on their responsibility to manage risk to all assets. In this course, you will explore the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2) Code of Professional Ethics. Then you will discover organizational codes of ethics, which establish an integral aspect of a mission and model adopted by an organization. Finally, you will focus on the Five Pillars of information security - confidentiality, integrity, availability, authenticity, and non-repudiation. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

A security vulnerability is a weakness, flaw, or error found within a security element that has the potential to be leveraged by a threat agent in order to compromise a secure network, system, or application. The goal of this course is to prepare the CISSP candidate to assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities of security architectures, designs, and solution elements. In this course, you will begin by considering the potential vulnerabilities of various systems including client-based, server-based, database, cryptographic, industrial control (ICS), embedded, virtualized, cloud-based, and distributed systems and how you might mitigate these issues. Next, you will walk through ways to lessen vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and discover how to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in containerized systems and microservices including application programming interface (API) calls. You will also look at the potential weaknesses in serverless technologies, high-performance computing, and edge computing and how to alleviate these issues. Finally, you will explore the security capabilities of Information Systems like memory protection, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and encryption/decryption.

Cryptology is the science of securing all communications. Cryptography generates messages with hidden meaning whereas cryptanalysis is the science of breaking those encrypted messages to recover their meaning. In this course, we will begin by defining several cryptographic methods such as symmetric, asymmetric, elliptic curves, and quantum and explore the cryptographic life cycle. Next, we will compare key management practices like generation and rotation and look at digital signatures and digital certificates for non-repudiation and integrity. We will then explore public key infrastructure (PKI), including quantum key distribution, and compare several types of brute force attacks. Finally, we will delve into implementation attacks, side-channel attacks, Kerberos exploitation, and ransomware attacks. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.